JOINT RESPONSE UNIT: IMPROVING PATIENT CARE AND SAFETY THROUGH COLLABORATIVE WORKING BETWEEN AMBULANCE AND POLICE SERVICES | Online Medical Assistant Training Programs

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Background

The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust receives more than one million calls every year, with roughly 10% of these coming from the Metropolitan Police Service. The majority of calls from the police are for patients with non-life-threatening symptoms, to which a clinical response is aimed to be dispatched within 30 minutes. When demand is high, however, ambulances get re-directed to more severely ill patients and police officers end up waiting on-scene for prolonged pe…

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